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Farmers in Malawi turn to community radio for information about cassava mosaic disease

Apr 20, 2017

Members of the Chitontho Farmers Club gather in the Nkhotakota district of Malawi’s Central Region. Sitting in the shade of her grass-thatched house, cassava farmer Achipera Nankambi recalls…

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New cassava variety provides new business opportunity

Dec 5, 2014

Moita Mwidadi (left) talks to FRI staff Vijay Cuddeford, managing editor, and Tereval Nasary, project officer. Moita Mwidadi is a cassava farmer from Vunde Manyinyi…

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Audio postcard: Tanzanian cassava co-operative triples harvest by listening to the radio

Jun 2, 2014

Salmu Nakudabi, chairperson of  Jitegemee B, a cassava processing co-operative in Tanzania, at work processing cassava. This group has more than tripled its yield after tuning…

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Counting on cassava

Oct 31, 2013

In many parts of Africa, cassava is one of the most important crops for small-scale farmers. Farmers have come to rely on the carbohydrate-rich tuber…

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Spring Network News is here!

Jun 24, 2013

Our most recent Network News is hot off the presses. In this issue we meet Dr. Adaptation and learn how his radio show helped Ghanaian…

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